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# תְּנוּמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8572

**slumber** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

slumber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8572/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּנוּמָה: n.f. slumber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8572/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. slumber;—abs. ψ 132:4 Pr 6:4; pl. תְּנוּמוֹת Pr 6:10 + 2 times;—slumber as time of visions Jb 33:15 (‖ תַּרְדֵּמָה); of indolent slumber ψ 132:4 (‖ שְׁנָת) Pr 6:4 (‖ שׁנה) in both c. נָתַן, sq. acc. + לְ; 6:10; 24:33 (both ‖ שׁנות, שׁכב).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of slumber(s) (2); slumber (2); slumber(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 6:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.10/#tree)

מְעַ֣ט שֵׁ֭נוֹת מְעַ֣ט תְּנוּמ֑וֹת מְעַ֓ט ׀ חִבֻּ֖ק יָדַ֣יִם לִשְׁכָּֽב׃

*Word for word:* a.little of.sleep(s) a.little of.slumber(s) a.little of.folding of.hands to rest

*JPS 1917:* 'Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep' —

[Proverbs 24:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.33/#tree)

מְעַ֣ט שֵׁ֭נוֹת מְעַ֣ט תְּנוּמ֑וֹת מְעַ֓ט ׀ חִבֻּ֖ק יָדַ֣יִם לִשְׁכָּֽב׃

*Word for word:* a.little of.sleep(s) a.little of.slumber(s) a.little of.folding of.hands to rest

*JPS 1917:* 'Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep' —

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8572/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).